Vicky Coughlan's "99 Treasures" quilt

I met Vicky Coughlan at a quilt show last year and she mentioned that she was making my "99 Treasures" quilt. Here's the finished top. The reddish pink she has used for the dark squares and border is a traditional Japanse colour (I've forgotten the name right now, but it might be beni iro?) I think I spot some of Euro Japan Links' fabrics in those circles! Thanks for the photo Vicky.

Super Strips Quilt Top at Gresford - second time round

I promised I would run this workshop again at Gresford in the autumn, so here it is once again. We had a much sunnier, if colder, day than in the summer, but everyone seemed to have just as much fun despite the freezing temperatures outside. This quilt top centre goes together very quickly, so I'm hoping to see some finished tops soon. Margaret loaned me her finished top from the summer workshop, so I displayed it alongside the main workshop sample and my new jelly roll version (which uses retro feedsack prints from the Katie Jump Rope range by Denise Schmidt).

The original workshop sample hanging up -



In bright colours -

In black and white -


Liberty prints -
Rich autumnal colours -
"Portobello Road" Jelly Roll from Moda fabrics - (the blue/green strips are going to be used for the outer borders)

Tiny prints - the same fabric can do twice the work, appearing in both strip sets -

More tiny prints -

and with it's outer triangle panels (Dot sewed extra strips in advance).


I got to see a few recent projects made from my designs. Dot brought her version of "99 Treasures" (on my patterns page) with a yellow shaded print used for the background squares. I think the same shaded fabric would make great borders.

Pat had made a new version of the Tough Tote (from "21 Terrific Patchwork Bags"), using chenille for the outer fabric panels. I love the yellow piping accent.

"99 Treasures" and "Japanese Circles and Squares" quilt variations

Jacky Hooton showed me her cool greens version of "99 Treasures" at Chester Ps & Qs' meeting last week. It looks gorgeous with the jade green backgrounds to the applique circles. I think this is the first time I've seen a green version and it works beautifully. Jacky machine quilted it, using the shippo pattern included with the instructions, which works very well as a continuous line quilting pattern. The back is interesting too...

Heather Hassell is one of the Severn Valley Quilters, where I taught the "Japanese Circles and Squares" workshop last month. I saw her at Malvern with her completed quilt centre (click here & scroll down to see it). Now it is bordered and bound. She got the fabric at the Malvern quilt show and used the remaining pieces from the fat quarters for the binding. I love being able to use up fabrics so economically, and it's satisfying to know that all the pieces went into the quilt in one way or another - but it is still hard to believe that this is just seven fat quarters, a half metre and some feature fabric circles.